Review: Xgimi Titan Noir Max Home Projector (2026)

Premium location theater projectors often travel astatine premium prices, usually northbound of $10,000. The Xgimi Titan Noir Max is different. It’s priced astatine $5,999, good nether 5 figures, but it supports IMAX Enhanced mode and has outstanding representation quality, a 10,000:1 autochthonal opposition ratio, 7,000 lumens brightness, and a unsocial dual intelligent iris strategy that makes on-the-fly adjustments.

Even though Xgimi has been astir for much than a decennary and is known for affordable location cinema models, the institution ran a Kickstarter run for the high-end Titan Noir Max location theatre projector and raised $19 million. In testing, it blasted done my benchmarks, edging retired adjacent apical models similar the Epson Pro Cinema LS9000 and the Leica Cine Play 1 that autumn into the aforesaid terms range. It lone faltered a spot erstwhile I tried watching evening scenes from movies similar Awake and Tron: Ares successful a agleam and sunny room.

While immoderate step-up successful prime would apt telephone for names similar JVC oregon Sony and a nonrecreational instal that involves wiring and mounting connected a ceiling, the long-throw Xgimi Titan Noir Max conscionable sits connected a table. It’s consumer-friendly but is highly configurable with precocious features. What truly sets it isolated is its inky achromatic for movies that creates much of a existent location theatre look.

Editor’s Note: The Xgimi Titan Noir Max is presently lone disposable done a Kickstarter campaign. As specified it is officially unreleased, and the last merchandise is taxable to change. If you determine to backmost it, retrieve that the accustomed Kickstarter disclaimers use and the merchandise you get whitethorn beryllium importantly antithetic than the portion we’re reviewing here. (Also, it’s wholly imaginable you mightiness not get thing astatine all.)

Easy Setup

I chuckled astir the 4 adjustable legs connected the Titan Noir Max astatine first, mostly due to the fact that I wondered wherefore nary different projector institution successful my caller representation had tried that. With 4 legs, you tin set the projector representation up and down oregon adjacent astatine an angle. For example, if the projector sits to the broadside of your sofa connected a table, you tin space it and set the legs arsenic needed. Most projectors I’ve tested precocious lone person adjustable beforehand legs.

The projector comes successful a hard ammunition carrying lawsuit and is each achromatic with metallic accents. Xgimi offers a basal for $399, but I skipped that and conscionable utilized a tiny table. One astonishment is that this exemplary runs connected a basal mentation of Google Android. That means erstwhile you spell done the setup, car keystoning, and choosing the picture-quality settings you want, the projector doesn’t tally connected an OS that lets you watercourse immoderate content. The presumption is that you volition link your ain AV receiver, streaming devices, oregon a 4K Ultra BluRay player. I americium OK with that due to the fact that astir high-end location cinema projectors don’t person streaming built in. There’s besides nary interior OS to origin immoderate slowdowns oregon excess lag for gaming. It meant I could usage a Google TV streamer, an Xbox Series X, and my ain AV receiver for DTS:X situation sound. I wasn’t capable to get Dolby Atmos passthrough situation dependable audio to enactment with my Onkyo TX-RZ50, though.

Configuring the Titan Noir Max settings took little than 5 minutes. I chiefly utilized a elemental keystoning relation to size the representation to my projector screen. I bash similar however the Leica Cine Play 1 automatically sizes the image, but the elemental keystoning and absorption options connected the Titan were truthful casual and speedy that it didn’t substance each that much. It took acold much clip to set the keystone connected the overmuch fussier Epson LifeStudio Grand Plus projector.

You don’t request to beryllium a certified projector installer to configure the precocious settings connected the Titan Noir Max, and they are each optional tweaks anyway. However, I enjoyed poking around—for example, I did a heavy dive connected the DBLE (or Dynamic Black Level Enhancement) mounting that reduces brightness to marque blacks look richer. I besides enabled the automatic iris control, which instantly adjusts colors and opposition for the existent scene.

My main find is that the Titan Noir Max performed nicely without having to tweak excessively galore of these settings, but you tin marque adjacent much adjustments for deeper blacks. That seems to beryllium the main calling card, since Xgimi’s selling operation for this projector is “absolute black.” You tin besides manually set the F-stop. For example, utilizing F2.0 volition enactment champion successful a acheronian room, but expanding to F5.6 worked amended successful a agleam country wherever you request much contrast.

This exemplary exceeds the DCI-P3 and Rec.2020 colour gamut spec. Interestingly, adjacent though this is simply a triple laser RGB projector, erstwhile I enabled an anti-rainbow mounting (called Anti-RBE), I ne'er noticed immoderate rainbow effects. Also, the projector is incredibly quiescent since the enclosure is truthful well-designed. Perched connected 4 legs, there’s plentifulness of country for ventilation.

The Titan Noir Max distant is slim and well-designed successful presumption of basal functions similar measurement power and settings. Since the projector doesn’t fto you watercourse utilizing a built-in OS, I recovered the 4 “shortcut” buttons to beryllium confusing. They let you to rapidly alteration settings similar iris control, but I similar erstwhile remotes conscionable person a Netflix oregon Prime button.

On the backmost of the Titan Noir Max, there’s a integer optical out, 2 USB ports (one for an outer disk loaded with movies and 1 for trickle-charging gadgets), 3 HDMI ports (including 1 for eARC passthrough audio), 1 3.5 mm audio out, and an Ethernet port. The projector uses Wi-Fi 6 for bully compatibility, and I ne'er had immoderate connectivity issues.

Movies and Shows

Because the Titan Noir Max doesn’t person built-in streaming, I connected a Google TV streamer to really ticker movies connected the projector. You tin prime up a 4K streaming instrumentality similar the Fire TV Stick 4K Max for arsenic small arsenic $60, truthful it’s not really that overmuch of an issue.

For benchmark tests, the Titan Noir Max performed amended than astir caller projectors I’ve tested. A tegument code trial looked varied and warm, showing however antithetic complexions should beryllium chiseled alternatively of excessively similar. A country with a obstruction successful wintertime that has greenish flecks of writer looked astir the aforesaid oregon adjacent somewhat amended than connected the Leica Cine Play 1. Televisions with so-so opposition thin to marque the writer successful that conception look excessively brownish and washed out.

Next, I started investigating movies. I’m a sucker for conscionable astir immoderate Pixar film, but the caller Hoppers merchandise connected the Disney+ app blew maine distant connected this projector. It’s highly colorful, crisp, and clear, with affluent inky blacks and vivid opposition that reminded maine of seeing the movie successful the theater. There’s a country aboriginal successful the movie that shows a young kid and her grandma with matching freckles, sitting adjacent a stream with a bluish entity successful the background. It’s mesmerizing. Of each of my tests, this was the impervious I needed: The representation prime is outstanding.

To trial heavy blacks, I enabled DBLE and played astir with adjacent much settings, including those for sound simplification and sharpness. My favourite sci-fi movie for investigating heavy blacks is The Creator, peculiarly an early-morning country successful the movie. Every tv and projectors with mediocre opposition and brightness renders this clip arsenic washed out, but the Titan Noir Max made the blacks and acheronian grays look affluent without a hint of mediocre contrast, helped mostly by the dynamic iris and DBLE.

That said, the Titan Noir Max didn't walk each trial with flying colors. Avatar: Fire and Ash looked much lifelike and colorful connected the Epson ProCinema LS9000, which uses a high-end lens that does a amended occupation with absorption crossed the full image. While the Titan Noir Max inactive looked phenomenal, bright, and colorful successful a country with whale-like creatures connected a sunny day, the LS9000 beats it successful presumption of axenic solution and utmost focus. That peculiar country looked astir the aforesaid connected the Leica Cine Play 1 arsenic the Titan with vivid colors.

And past I started investigating successful a brightly lit room. Many projectors, including the Leica Cine Play 1, bash not execute good successful a agleam room. The Titan Noir Max was inactive awesome during conflict scenes successful the movie War Machine connected Netflix, particularly erstwhile the enactment is outdoors. I besides watched Unbroken and the colors were inactive vivid and not washed out. However, successful the darkest scenes of the movie Awake, which takes spot astatine night, the representation prime was not great. Both Awake and Tron: Ares looked spectacular successful a acheronian room, but washed retired successful a sunny room.

Glorious for Gaming and Everything Else

I was mostly sold connected the representation prime successful a acheronian country but wanted to trial the dynamic iris adjacent more. That’s wherever the crippled 007: First Light connected the Xbox came successful handy. There’s a mind-blowing conception precocious successful the crippled connected a vessel with colorful flowers that looked eye-poppingly existent astatine 120 inches connected my projector screen. The max size for this exemplary is 300 inches, oregon large capable to task onto a treble stall store door. I didn’t effort that because, astatine 18 pounds, the Titan Noir Max isn’t that portable.

The colors adjusted lightning accelerated successful a nighttime conception during First Light, changing from agleam prima to misty clouds and a fewer darker shadows. The Titan Noir Max perpetually and instantly adjusts for these tonal variations. You tin perceive the iris adjusting faintly if you alteration that feature, which I enjoyed but others mightiness find irritating. With each of the gunfire successful the crippled oregon during a chaotic movie similar Hoppers, you won’t ever perceive the iris.

I went done a barrage of PC gaming tests starting with Crimson Desert connected to a laptop. The Titan Noir Max supports 240Hz astatine 1080p, but you bash person to fuss with immoderate settings connected the projector (like enabling crippled mode and turning the motion-processing diagnostic MEMC off). At the higher refresh rate, each nudge connected my Xbox controller for a PC felt contiguous with nary lag. The gacha crippled NTE besides felt responsive during combat scenes, and I tested Forza Horizon 6 arsenic well, gazing astatine a Nissan sports car successful afloat and vivid colour connected the large screen. I noticed the lag was astir nonexistent, which is antithetic for a high-end cinema projector.

Next, I watched the NBA playoffs utilizing the YouTube TV app and, erstwhile again, the dynamic iris kicked successful to marque definite the colors popped. I was amazed astatine however inky achromatic the surface looked during the preshow announcements with the lights disconnected successful the stadium. During the game, the jersey colors looked wide and vivid, adjacent if I missed seeing my beloved Timberwolves.

News broadcasts utilizing YouTube TV besides had a cinematic vividness to them, arsenic though you are watching CBS News astatine a movie theatre instead.

In the end, the Xgimi Titan Noir Max excels arsenic a location theatre projector for movies and TV shows. If your extremity is to marque a movie similar Hoppers look colorful with heavy blacks similar you're watching astatine the section cineplex, this projector is 1 of the champion options around. It matches up with the vivid colors of the Leica Cine Play 1 and adjacent the Epson ProCinema LS9000. The lone drawback is representation prime mightiness endure if you usage the projector successful a brightly lit room.